Olga Broumas Quotes

#1. Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

Olga Broumas

#2. Philo of Alexandria,

Sara Lewis Holmes

#3. Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Sharon Kay Penman

#4. I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

Olga Broumas

#5. Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

Olga Broumas

#6. I am a woman committed to
a politics
of transliteration, the methodology

of a mind
stunned at the suddenly
possible shifts of meaning - for which
like amnesiacs

in a ward on fire, we must
find words
or burn.

Olga Broumas

#7. When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

Olga Broumas

#8. The last of us could be the very best of us who ever roamed the earth, the great exemplars of a humanity we used to dream of becoming before we got wise to the reality that we are just a mob always in the market for new recruits.

Thomas Ligotti

#9. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Olga Broumas

#10. I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

Karen Russell

#11. Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

Olga Broumas

#12. I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

Michael Connelly